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tbrookside · 10-31-2010, 05:23 PM

I don't know if the DTB sales curve is necessarily flatter - ebooks in the long run are probably a much better long tail venue than print.

But Amazon does offer 4 to 5 as many print books as Kindle books. There are still only 700,000 books in the Kindle Store, and the print database runs into the millions. That makes it a little more difficult to compare the sales performance of the different media without picking a set of books to look at side to side.

10-31-2010, 05:23 PM	#10
tbrookside Connoisseur Posts: 70 Karma: 96 Join Date: May 2010 Location: Bennington, VT Device: Kindle	I don't know if the DTB sales curve is necessarily flatter - ebooks in the long run are probably a much better long tail venue than print. But Amazon does offer 4 to 5 as many print books as Kindle books. There are still only 700,000 books in the Kindle Store, and the print database runs into the millions. That makes it a little more difficult to compare the sales performance of the different media without picking a set of books to look at side to side.